This is what I have been playing with the last few days. Done some designing. The biggest challenge was that I wanted to use yarn I already had, which narrowed down the possibilities some. This yarn is a pretty thick acrylic.

The actual shape of this tunic is rather simple and was quick to make. Since I don't like purling, I knitted it on circular needles and had to embroider the dots with Kitchener stitch afterwards. I now realize that it would probably have been easier to knit it on straight needles and knit the dots with intarsia. The two largest dots are crocheted pockets. At the bottom I had to do pretty much crochet to make the edge stop curling. Think I should have knitted some rounds of garter stitch there...

This is how I made it:The gauge was 12 stitches and 20 rows on 10 cm with 6 mm needles.To get it wide enough I cast on 108 stitches (90 cm x 1,2 stitches/cm). Then I knitted about 30 cm stockinette. The last round with red yarn was decreased like this:K5, k2tog, (k1, k2tog) repeat the brackets a total of 14 times, then k5. Repeat it all once more.

Change to black yarn and 5,5 mm needles. Start with knitting one round and then 5 rounds of garter stitch. Change back to 6 mm needles and continue knitting. Go on until the black part measures about 9 cm. Bind off the last 39 stitches on the round. Continue the stockinette on the front. Bind off 1 stitch i the beginning of each row about 7 times, then bind off 2 stitches on every row 4 times. Bind off the rest of the stitches.

Then I crocheted 2 rounds of sc around the back and neck. For shoulder-straps I crocheted 6 hdc back and forth for 25 rows (about 30 cm) from the front part and attached it to the back with 8 cm between the two straps.

The pockets were crocheted like simple circles. 8 hdc in a magic circle. Sl st to first st.2 hdc in every st throughout the round, sl st in first st.Ch 1, (2 hdc in the same st, 1 hdc i the next st) repeat, end with sl st in first st.Ch 1, (2 hdc in same st, hdc in the next 2 st) repeat, end with sl st in first st.Ch 1, (2 hdc in same st, hdc in the next 3 st) repeat, end with sl st in first st. Cut the yarn. Attach to the front of the tunic as pockets.

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I live on the countryside in Sweden with husband and two kids. Welcome to my little corner of the world! It's mostly about crochet, but also all sorts of crafting, maybe a little gardening or whatever makes me happy at the moment. I hope you will like it here!